Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 11 March 2009 22:40:54 Michael Higgins wrote:
> Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while,
> yet allow package-rN updates...

This doesn't seem to be a built-in feature of portage after a quick scan of 
the man pages. But I can think of a method to do it the long way round:

The atom syntax you want is <package>~ which means any -rN version (including 
-r0) of the base version.

You could grab a complete list of your system and world (emerge -et), mangle 
it into shape with grep, sed and awk and redirect the whole lot to a 
package.mask file in a format something like this:

>app-1.1.0~


>
> I spent most of the last couple of days killing two bugs that were a
> serious drag on my laptop, involving kacpid hogging the CPU on a resume, or
> bay swap, and gnome panel freezing on > 7 open windows (a real deal
> killer). I'd like to spend a few months just using it now that it all
> works...
>
> So with the latest kernel in the tree unmasked (kacpid bug fix) and a
> couple of patches and ebuilds in my overlay for a pair of unmasked x11 and
> gnome packages, what is the method to keep this 'world' in a 'set' and
> 'forgotten' state? '-)
>
> Cheers,

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